US team makes phonon lasers as a step towards ‘unjammable’ navigation
Scientists at the University of Rochester and Rochester Institute of Technology have engineered a squeezed phonon laser that…
Are multiverses real? An astrophysicist explains why it depends on how you define ‘real’
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an…
Liquids can fracture like solids under extreme stress: Scientists
Researchers from Drexel University have discovered that liquids can, it appears, fracture like solids under specific conditions. In…
Oregon researchers discover ‘ideal glass’ — mathematically
Try bending a piece of glass, and it’ll likely shatter. But what if a different, stronger form of…
What is vibe physics? | 'AI is not doing end-to-end science yet' | Inshorts – Inshorts
What is vibe physics? | ‘AI is not doing end-to-end science yet’ | Inshorts InshortsClaude Opus 4.5 used in…
‘To do something nobody’s done’: quantum physicist Zhu Zijie leaves Europe for China
Science and Nature are among the world’s most prestigious journals, which most scientists strive to publish in but…
The physics of no return: What actually happens if you get pulled into a black hole
In 1916, only a year after Albert Einstein had published his general theory of relativity, Karl Schwarzschild used…
Scientists create tornado of light to power lasers, quantum devices
Light usually travels in straight lines, but what if it could twist, spiral, and behave like a miniature…
two stars approaching each other like a cosmic clock
A century ago, Albert Einstein predicted that massive objects that orbit each other would send tiny ripples through…
Scientists just found a way to store massive data using light in 3 dimensions
Researchers have developed a new holographic data storage method that records and retrieves information in three dimensions by…
Death is not the end: What physics says about dying
A flame goes out, and something in the room shifts with it. Not because matter has vanished, but…
Why Most Quantum Computers Need to Be Colder Than Space
The large gold chandelier-like structure that has come to represent quantum computers in popular culture is actually just…